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Holy Goat Blood Reign Flanders Red

Holy Goat Blood Reign Flanders Red

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Producer Holy Goat
Country Scotland
Region Dundee

Tasting Notes

Morello Cherry, Balsamic, Oak and Caramel Malt

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Scotland Sour Wild

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More About Holy Goat Blood Reign Flanders Red

Brewed in collaboration with our pals at Radical Way Brewing
(Cyprus), this Flanders Red inspired sour beer is a blend of 70%
provision strength ‘young’ stock beer brewed aged in a stainless
steel for six months. A portion of around 30% ‘mature’ stock beer
was aged in red wine barrels which had been soaked with
Commandaria, a Cypriot dessert wine with history dating back to
the Crusades.
The resultant blend was fermented and conditioned on dried figs
for a further month. The resulting beer has a complex vinous
character, along with notes of stewed plums, dates, fig and
balsamic vinegar.

Meet the Producer, Holy Goat

Holy Goat

Style: Brewery

Holy Goat make the sort of beers that smell faintly alarming when you first open them, then five minutes later you’re completely hooked and trying to explain mixed fermentation to your mates like you’ve suddenly become a farmhouse beer professor overnight.

Based up in Dundee, the brewery focuses heavily on spontaneous and mixed fermentation beers, pulling inspiration from Belgian lambic traditions but giving everything a distinctly modern Scottish twist. Loads of oak ageing, wild yeast, bacteria and long maturation times involved, which means the beers develop all kinds of tart, funky, fruity and earthy flavours that normal clean brewery fermentation would run screaming from.

The saisons and sour beers are where things really shine. Sharp citrus, underripe peach, hay, cider apple, farmhouse funk, bits of oak, sometimes a gentle vinegar edge depending on the beer. Complex stuff, but still weirdly drinkable once your palate settles in. There’s clearly loads of care behind it all rather than just “let’s make it sour and see what happens”.

Fruit gets handled brilliantly too. When Holy Goat use berries or stone fruit, it tastes like actual fermented fruit rather than smoothie mix dumped into beer for Instagram likes. Dry, tart and layered instead of sugary.

Despite all the wild fermentation nerdiness, the brewery never feels pretentious. The beers are experimental but grounded, and there’s a proper DIY Scottish energy behind the whole thing. Slightly chaotic, deeply thoughtful and very good at making your fridge feel more interesting.